Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Gygax , Gary (1989), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeon Masters Guide, Retrieved on 2013-04-13
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    13 APR 2013

     Gary Gygax Explains Dice

    As the DM, the tools of your trade are dice — platonic solid-shaped or just about any other sort. The random numbers you generate by rblling dice determine the results based on the probabilities determined herein or those you have set forth on your own. In case you are not familiar with probability curves, there are two types which are determined by your dice: linear (straight line),'which has equal probability of any given integer in the number group, and bell (ascending and descending line)...
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    Probability, percentages, averages, there's a lot of math in this introduction to the most important tool of the gamer.

    What does it mean that the average role of a 1d6 is 3.5 but the probability of any number coming up is 16.7?

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